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UNITED STATES' Iatented April 11, 1905.

PATENTl OFFICE.

CHARLES H. WELLMAN AND JOHN WRIGHT SEAVER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNORSTO THE W ELLMAN BEAVER-MORGAN COMPANY,

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LORRY 0R DUMPING-CAR.

SPECIFICATION nforming part of Letters Patent No. I786,926, dated April11, 1905.

Application filed November 11, 1904. Serial No. 232,380.

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. WELLMAN and JOHN WRIGHT SEAVER,residents of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Lorries orDumping-Cars; and We do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as' will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention relates toan improved lorry or dumping-car, the object ofthe invention being to provide the lorry or car with improved means forremoving material from a bin or bins and filling the car, and therebycheapening the construction of the bins, as it dispenses' with the usualore-gates or other feeding apparatus attached to the bin; and with thisand other objects in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of-parts, aswill be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in side elevationillustrating our improvements. Fig. 2 is a View in side elevation of thegearing on the car. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Fig. 4 is atop planview, and Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic plan view.

The lorry consists of a platform-frame A, supporting a tank or hopper Band mounted on wheels 1, adapted to run on a track 2. The hopper B issupported by means of scalelevers, so that the contents thereof may beweighed.

D represents an electric motor connected by a train of gearing C withone of the caraxles and by beveled gears E with a vertical shaft F. Onthe upper end of this shaft F apair of curved arms or blades Cr aresecured I this construction permits the shaft F and blades G to be movedlaterally of the car out of the way of a bin, as shown in dotted linesin Figs. 3 and '4, and also enables the blades to be disposed as far toone side as may be desirable to remove the material from a bin or bins.

The bin or bins I are formed with an inclined bottom, so arranged thatthe contents of the bin flow down by gravity toward the front of thebin. Extending along the front of the bin is acontinuous slot or openingJ, and immediately beneath the same is a horizontal platform or shelf K.The ore slides down the inclined bottom and out on this shelf K as faras the angle of repose.

The operation of our improvements is as follows: The operator stands ina suitable cab L at one end of the lorry or car, and the motor D underhis control is started to propel the Ycar alongthe track to a positionin front of a bin I. The shaft F and blades G, carried thereby, are thenmoved to one side of the car to aposition to project the blades over theshelf K. The motor D is then operated to drive shaft F and turn theblades G, which latter will force the material from shelf K down intothe hopper or receptacle B, and this operation is continued until thedesired quantity of material is received in the hopper B. The materialcan be weighed as it enters the hopper by the scale-levers, and when thedesired amount is received the car can be moved to another bin fordifferent material if a mixed charge is desired. When the properquantity of material is received in the hopper, the shaft F and bladesGr are moved to the opposite side of the car or out of the way of thebins and the car propelled by its motor Dto the desired point ofdischarge.

A great many slight changes might be made in the general form andarrangement of the parts described without departing from our invention,and hence we do not restrict ourselves to the precise details set forth,but consider ourselves at liberty to' make such slight changes andalterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what We claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a lorry or ear, and a rotary device at the topthereof adapted to force material into the car.

2. The combination of a lorry or car, a vertical shaft on the car, meansfor turning said shaft, and horizontal arms or blades on the shaftadapted to force material into the lorry or car when the shaft isturned.

3. The combination of a lorry or car, a motor thereon, a vertical shafton the car controlled by the motor, and horizontal arms or blades on theshaft adapted to force material into the ear when the shaft is turned.

4. The combination of a lorry or car, a motor thereon adapted to propelthe car, a vertical shaft on the car also operated by the motor, andhorizontal arms or blades on the shaft adapted when the shaft is turned,to force material into the car.

5. The combination of a lorry or car, a laterally-movable shaft on thecar, and blades or arms carried by the shaft and adapted to forcematerial into the car when the shaft is turned.

6. *The combination with a bin having an inclined bottom and an opening`in its front, and a shelf in advance of the opening` onto which materialfrom the bin moves by gravity, of a lorry or car, and blades or armscarried by the lorry or car and means for moving` the blades or arms ina horizontal plane to scrape material from the shelf into the car.

7. rIhe combination with a frame supported on Wheels, of a hoppercarried by the frame, laterally-sliding boxes on the frame,a verticalshaft supported in said boxes, horizontal arms or blades carried by theshaft and adapted to force material into the hopper when the shaft isturned, means for turning said shaft yet permitting the shaft and bladesto be adjusted laterally of the lorry or car to dispose the blades inreach of or out of reach of material to be fed to the hopper.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing' witnesses.

CHARLES H. WELLMAN. JOHN YRIGHT SEAVER.

lVitnesses:

W. Gr. HILDEBRAN, C. W. Coins'roeli.

